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Hello Everyone,
Do you have some leftover GPU cards from the boom? Are you interested in making some money GPU mining while simultaneously helping to search for cures for diseases like cancer? Do you want to invest into a coin with great growth potential? If so... check out Curecoin! http://curecoin.net/

Curecoin mining is split into two groups. You can point your ASIC towards securing the blockchain (ASICS receive 20% of the daily payout), or you can point your GPU/CPU towards folding with Stanford's folding@home system which helps look for a cure for diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Cancer, and Parkinson's. People pointing their GPU/CPU towards this receive 80% of the payout!

Plus this 80% portion is fully long-term ASIC resistant!
Why you ask?

For two reasons!

1) When folding you receive a work unit from one of several different projects (you can't choose). Each work unit runs differently - different enough that you would only be able to create an ASIC tailored to a specific work unit. And that would mean you would need to drop other work units which would decrease the points you receive noticeably.

2) Pande Group (the group at Stanford that runs the project) has a very small development team and only supports large consumer hardware. In order for your returned work unit to be accepted, it needs to be on a 'white list' which is a list of hardware Pande Group supports. If your hardware (an ASIC) isn't there your work units won't count for anything - and previous discussions (even before the introduction of Curecoin) have shown there is a very small chance of the Pande Gorup white listing an ASIC - especially a company making on just for folding profit.

Here is some reading material for you guys:

What is curecoin?
Network security from hashing is good. Making money is great. Curing Cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, preventing viruses, and designing next-level pharmaceuticals is awesome. What if we could put these together, to build a coin secured and run by crypto, mined with SHA256, and supported by cancer-curing research?

Announcing CureCoin!

What benefits does it provide?

Most currencies are either in the CPU/GPU stage, or in the ASIC stage. CureCoin can be earned with both. Folders use high-end GPUs and CPUs to fold proteins, earning a proportional amount of coins set-aside for their contributions. Miners mine with SHA256 ASICs as usual, securing the blockchain for the CureCoin network. Whether you are heavily-invested in ASIC equipment or still have GPUs and CPUs, you can participate. Due to the nature of folding (diverse, constantly changing, not easily predictable), GPUs and CPUs will both always be relevant, so an investment in consumer hardware isn't wasted.

How is it different?

CureCoin allows owners of both ASIC and GPU/CPU hardware to earn. CureCoin puts ASICs to work at what they are good at--securing a blockchain, while it puts GPUs and CPUs to work with work items that can only be done on them--protein folding. While still having a secure blockchain, it supports, and thus is supported by, scientific research. While it isn't technically 'backed' by scientific research (there's no central authority you can visit to trade coins for scientific research) the coin has intrinsic value as both a currency and as a system of purchasing a tradeable representation of medical research. Similar to the idea of carbon offsets, someone with money can buy some CureCoins which represent a proportional amount of scientific/medicinal research, while someone with tech know-how can also contribute to the folding effort, doing the hands-on work, and gain profit. The value imbued into each unit of the currency from the folding network it represents would add additional traction and inertia to the coin's trading value. As time goes on and the amount of folding done for the network increases, the amount of research that each coin represents grows.


How is this protein folding work generated by folding@home: http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Runs,_Clones_and_Gens
How to start mining: https://curecoin.net/knowledge-base/12-knowledge-base/folding-for-curecoin/23-how-do-i-start-folding-for-curecoin
Forums: https://www.curecoin.net/forum/
IRC: https://curecoin.net/community/curecoin-chat

Exchange
https://www.poloniex.com/exchange/BTC_CURE



Please checkout Curecoin & start folding or invest today!

reserved  :)

i will try this

Protein folding is and old story like SETI and other,
but is there any results over the last years ?? or they are researching for the zombie virus!  8)

Watching

What do you mean by a zombie virus? First of all SETI and Protein folding have very different goals. Second of all both programs have had major results.

Here you can view some of the papers & results of FAH: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers


They have over 110 papers on everything from what they've learned from cloud computing to cloud computing more effective, to the tons of science they have accomplished - feel free to read through a few they are actually quite interesting.

Great idea, thanks  :)

My R9 290X isn't compatible. :(

Yes it is compatible with folding@home. Are you having some sort of trouble setting it up? Have you followed the guide to setting it up? Let me know and I can try to help you. You should be able to get around 200k PPD with this GPU - in fact I'm planning on buying one to use for folding since after the Litecoin fiasco they are going for very cheap.

You're welcome! Let me know how it goes and if you need any help setting it up!

Glad to hear it!

Keep hammering at this!  It's not flash and doesn't reek of hookers and liquor but it's real and real important.  Any knowledgeable and sane person is revolted by the massive waste of computing power that is the Bitcoin network.  I can't imagine what that kind of power could do if harnessed properly.  (Actually, lots of Lattice QCD comes to mind)  Our hashing should have value, not just juggling numbers for the hell of it.

Thanks. When I let the program mine with my card, it says something along the lines of "card not found" or something. (I'm away from the computer right now)
How long does it take to get the 200k? Because that's 20 btc. Mistake?

To start 200k PPD does not mean 200k curecoin.

200k PPD means 200,000 points per day.

The formula for curecoin/day = (your points per day/teams points per day)*7500~

As for GPU not found, try plugging in your monitor (if you are using one) directly into your GPU and restarting it. Otherwise post your question here: https://foldingforum.org/viewforum.php?f=38 and there will be people to help you set it up.

Ok, I got it working but for some reason the client says my ppd will be 1.6k. I don't know what's wrong. Do you have any idea as to what it could be?

That's too low - has it updated, sometimes it takes a while to get to the correct PPD.

Try reading the following threads for help:
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=26746
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=26145
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=25262

I like coins which help science

I do too! Hope you join!

my GPUs are with FoldingCoin... same cause so it doesn't matter
I like distribution better, because no ASICs at all. and using Counterparty instead of own blockchain.
maybe if Curecoin's pool can allow long usernames and then technically it will be possible to mine both :)

If they don't require you to sign up for a specific team you can sign up for cyrptobullionpools and sign up for team 224497 and fold with them.

HI DEV

I already started in Google mining, how to put the coin to my purse?